Wezen

E506485

Wezen is a bright supergiant star in the constellation Canis Major, notable as one of its most luminous members.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wezen canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf luminous supergiant
star
yellow-white supergiant
belongsToGalaxy Milky Way
evolvesFrom massive main-sequence star
evolvesTo red supergiant
hasAbsoluteMagnitude_V −6.9
hasAlternativeName Delta Canis Majoris
hasApparentMagnitude 1.83
hasBayerDesignation δ Canis Majoris
linked to: Delta Canis Majoris
hasColorIndex_BV +0.67
hasDeclination −26° 23′ 36″
hasDistanceFromEarth_ly ~1600
hasDistanceFromEarth_pc ~490
hasEffectiveTemperature_K ~5800
hasFlamsteedDesignation Delta Canis Majoris
hasGalacticLatitude_deg −11
hasGalacticLongitude_deg 238
hasHDNumber HD 54605
hasHIPNumber HIP 34444
hasHRNumber HR 2693
hasLuminosity_solar ~50,000
hasMass_solar ~17
hasNameOrigin derived from Arabic "al-wazn" meaning "the weight"
hasParallax_mas ~2.0
hasProperMotion_Dec_mas_per_yr +4
hasProperMotion_RA_mas_per_yr −3
hasRadialVelocity_km_per_s ~34
hasRadius_solar ~200
hasRightAscension 07h 08m 23s
hasSpectralType F8Iab
hasStellarClassification F-type supergiant
isAmongMostLuminousIn Canis Major
isCatalogedIn Bright Star Catalogue
Henry Draper Catalogue
Hipparcos Catalogue
isInHemisphere southern celestial hemisphere
isLargerThan the Sun
isMoreLuminousThan the Sun
isMoreMassiveThan the Sun
isPartOfAsterism Canis Major main figure
isVisibleToNakedEye true
locatedInConstellation Canis Major
willEndAs core-collapse supernova

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.